United Nations Development Program is the UN's global development network, an organization advocating for change and connecting countries to knowledge, experience and resources to help people build a better life. UNDP is on the ground in 166 countries, working with them on their own solutions to global and national development challenges.
The UN Refugee Agency is mandated to lead and co-ordinate international action to protect refugees and resolve refugee problems worldwide. Its primary purpose is to safeguard the rights and well-being of refugees. It strives to ensure that everyone can exercise the right to seek asylum and find safe refuge in another State, with the option to return home voluntarily, integrate locally or to resettle in a third country.
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières is an international medical humanitarian organization created by doctors and journalists in to provide aid in nearly 60 countries to people whose survival is threatened by violence, negligence, or catastrophe, primarily due to armed conflict, epidemics, malnutrition, exclusion from health care, or natural disasters.
The Center for Global Developmentis an independent, not-for-profit think tank that works to reduce global poverty and inequality by encouraging policy change in the U.S. and other rich countries through rigorous research and active engagement with the policy community.
CARE is a leading humanitarian organization fighting global poverty.
The OneWorld network is a global hub for groups and individuals who care about international issues. News and views form around the world is selected from OneWorld's vast network of nongovernmental organizations, development-oriented news services, foundations, and research institutions.
Amnesty International is a worldwide movement of people who campaign for internationally recognized human rights for all.
Human Rights Watch is an independent, nongovernmental organization dedicated to protecting the human rights of people around the world.
ONE is comprised of Americans of all beliefs raising public awareness about the issues of global poverty, hunger, disease and efforts to fight such problems in the world's poorest countries.
Mercy Corps is a non-profit organization engaged in humanitarian aid and development activities around the world, focusing on long-term solutions to hunger and poverty,
The interconnectedness of issues explored through EarthPulse: A Visual Guide to Global Trends from National Geographic will help you analyze the human condition, man's relationship with nature, and the connected world by means of informative maps, diagrams, and imagery.
Save the Children is an international organization helping children in need around the world through education, health care and economic opportunities, as well as emergency aid in cases of natural disasters, war and conflict
Youth for Human Rights International (YHRI) is an independent non-profit corporation headquartered in Los Angeles, with the purpose to educate people in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights so they become valuable advocates for tolerance and peace.
Aid for Africa educates the American public about the complex and broad nature of Africa’s problems and the diversity of organizations helping to solve them. It also builds support and understanding by working to improve health and nutrition, education, sustainable development, food and agriculture, the environment, and wildlife conservation through a network of charities and their African partners in Sub-Saharan Africa.
USAID has been the principal U.S. agency to extend assistance to countries recovering from disaster, trying to escape poverty, and engaging in democratic reforms. USAID is an independent federal government agency that receives overall foreign policy guidance from the Secretary of State. supports long-term and equitable economic growth and advances U.S. foreign policy objectives by supporting: economic growth, agriculture and trade; global health; and democracy, conflict prevention and humanitarian assistance.
Plan is a global partnership of caring people founded in 1937 to bring hope and help to the world’s poorest children. Plan USA strives to achieve lasting improvements in the quality of life of deprived children in developing countries by: enabling deprived children, their families and their communities to meet basic needs and to increase their ability to participate in and benefit from their societies; fostering relationships to increase understanding and unity among peoples of different cultures and countries; and being an advocate for the rights and interests of the world’s children.
Global Greatness
via the Internet to small businesses in developing countries.
committed to the sustainable end of world hunger.
organization that provides many types of assistance and help to children and mothers.